Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi - Paris, France
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N 48° 50.231 E 002° 19.800
31U E 450835 N 5409572
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904) was the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty.
Waymark Code: WMD2FY
Location: Île-de-France, France
Date Posted: 11/09/2011
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member rangerroad
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Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's gravesite is in Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery. The gravesite has a pedestal with a scultped female angel flying above. The pedestal also has a circular relief of Bartholdi- and presumably his wife. The bottom of the pedestal and the tomb itself have a sculpted cloth drape along the right side.
Wikipedia (visit link) further informs us:
"Born in Colmar, Alsace to Jean Charles Bartholdi (1791-1836) and Augusta Charlotte Bartholdi née Beysser (1801-1891), Bartholdi was the youngest of their four children, and one of only two to survive infancy, along with the oldest brother, Jean-Charles, who became a lawyer and editor. When Bartholdi's father died, his mother moved the family to Paris, while maintaining ownership of their house in Colmar, which later became the Bartholdi Museum. He attended the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, and received a BA in 1852. He then went on to study architecture at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts as well as painting under Ary Scheffer in his studio in the Rue Chaptal, now the Musée de la Vie Romantique. Later, Batholdi turned his attention to sculpture, which afterward exclusively occupied him.

Bartholdi served in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as a squadron leader of the National Guard, and as a liaison officer to General Giuseppe Garibaldi, representing the French government and the Army of the Vosges. In 1875, he joined the Freemasons Lodge Alsace-Lorraine in Paris. In 1871, he made his first trip to the United States, to select the site for the Statue of Liberty, the creation of which would occupy him after 1875.

On December 15, 1875, Bartholdi married Jeanne-Emilie Baheux Puysieux in Newport, Rhode Island. They had no children.

Bartholdi was one of the French commissioners in 1876 to the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. There he exhibited bronze statues of "The Young Vine-Grower," "Génie Funèbre," "Peace" and "Genius in the Grasp of Misery," for which he received a bronze medal.

Bartholdi, who received the rank of Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1886, died of tuberculosis, in Paris, on 4 October 1904."

That article list many of his prominent works.
Description:
see above


Date of birth: 08/02/1834

Date of death: 10/04/1904

Area of notoriety: Art

Marker Type: Statue

Setting: Outdoor

Visiting Hours/Restrictions: daily 10-6; winter 10-5.

Fee required?: No

Web site: [Web Link]

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